Monday, January 24, 2011

Castlevania: Lord of Shadow Needs Some Camera Help

I'm almost through with the game and for the most part I love it. It combines everything I loved about Castlevania games with everything I loved about the Onimusha and Tomb Raider series. The only negative is the lack of an adjustable camera. I may be spoiled with the excellent control system of the Modern Warfare series but the camera made this game extremely frustrating at times.

I let this go as a minor frustration until the level "Titan Graveyard". While the game is for the most part linear, this level made me guess at every turn. To add salt to a wound the penalty for these necessary guesses was a slow death in the poison fog. This relatively small level took me over an hour to get through and it required the help of 2 YouTube videos. After watching these videos the solutions were not interesting. I did not have a "why didn't I think of that" moment. Instead, the solutions were blind turns that require no skill, but luck.